Definition of "apollonian" [apollonian]

• Clear, harmonious, and restrained. (adjective)

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• "Peggy, the epitome of apollonian focus and creativity, becomes the heroine in this episode."
• "Christy Mathewson was an apollonian figure who never drank or cursed, wore a cape when he entered the field at the Polo Grounds, and, beginning in 1903, won at least twenty games in twelve consecutive years."
• "For their happy customers, these two radically different personalities offer radically different dining experiences -- a mood of unbuttoned indulgence at Babbo as compared with an apollonian serenity at the French Laundry."